Elisa Steel’s thought process changed when she suffered from a life threatening illness three years ago, where she was incapacitated for some time. However because of this life changing event, she has learnt that you must do something that fulfils you and that makes you happy. If you are not happy in what you are doing, change your life, change your direction, as life is short and everyone deserves to be happy.
Elisa believes that we are meant to be happy and be able to make others happy by sharing our talents and gifts.
From a very young age Elisa Steel has always known that she was able to draw and paint, ” A gift from God,” she says, that has given her much pleasure and enjoyment throughout the years. Elisa was also given the gift of literature, writing anything from poetry , screenplays, musicals, to helping with grade 11/12 English Literature. However she never believed that she was good enough. Now after her life having two major cardiac arrests, she believes that she can do just about anything, that she finds enjoyent from.
So for the past two to three years, she has immersed herself in either painting or written art, producing artworks that have been donated to raise funds for charity, as well as producing stage productions and completing five scripts, with another five in current pre-production stages.
Her past history involves being the writer/director/producer for current feature films, director of a small Gold Coast Theatre Company, Robina Diamond Theatre, writing, directing and producing original material. Elisa has a vast history in wedding hair and makeup, stage hair and makeup and worked on the very first L ‘Oriel hair show. Having a foundation in art and design, she has designed clothes, sets, house interiors, book illustrations and much more.
Performance and Directorial Credits Include:
Starring in The Sound of Music at Qpac with the Lloyd Webber/Frost, London Palladiums Theatre Company
One Room feature film teaser
Director: Craters Mansion
Director: Cursed
Director: How to Host a Murder
Director: Rockin Robin
She is vocally trained and has taught high school drama and voice.
She has run seminars, workshops on how to successfully audition in theatre, run fashion shows and exhibitions
Recent Work:
The Sound of Music at Qpac with the Lloyd Webber/Frost, London Palladiums Theatre Company
GC Hospital training films
SP Patient, Cancer Patient
Several short films and TVC
Makeup, Hair, Costume and sets, on the following productions: Half a Sixpence, Toad of Toad Hall, Rockin Robin, Roll of the Dice, Cursed, Craters Mansion.
The Writing:
She can write a song lyrics or a poem in twenty minutes, however a script takes a couple of months. Elisa has tutored high school English and believes she has a fair understanding of verse.
Unique traits: Despite being disabled, my brain works well and I have a graphic imagination.
DISPLACED written by Elisa Steel(c) 2016 Sci-fi ⋄ Thriller ⋄ Independent ⋄ Mystery ⋄ Adventure ⋄ Crime ⋄ Drama Six friends on a camping trip, must repeatedly relive the same horrific day, when they stumble into a time vortex, where space and time is displaced.
ONE ROOM Written by Elisa Steel (c)2015 Independent ⋄ Film-noir ⋄ Biography ⋄ Crime ⋄ Drama This true story, is an extremely dark and disturbing discussion within one woman’s mind. After suffering child abuse, rape, suicide attempts and much more, Lee builds bridges trying to reach the innocuous normality that she believes life should be, but finds the building blocks from which she strives to do so, are not there. (True events from the diaries of psychiatric patient, Lee Martin. Only the names have been changed.)
WHO written by Elisa Steel (c)2016 Action ⋄ Mystery ⋄ Thriller ⋄ Horror ⋄ Crime ⋄ Drama At Lake Leake, only one thing is scarier than standing close to a mutilated body and not knowing it's there, it's standing next to the killer.